France: Saint-Cloud Tuesday card has some quality

A pair of conditions races for 3-year-olds, one restricted to fillies, the other open, highlight a 10-race program at Saint-Cloud in France, one of only two racecourses in Europe with a Tuesday card.

Hanover in Germany also races Tuesday, hosting a 12-race program. England is set to resume racing on June 4, Ireland shortly thereafter, but until then, France and Germany remain the lone European jurisdictions carding races.

You can watch and wager on both programs at DRFBets.com. The Saint-Cloud card, which has considerably higher-level racing, begins at 5:10 a.m. Eastern and the co-features go as races 3 and 4. There’s a Group 3 on the Saint-Cloud card, as well, but this is a so-called Autre Que Pur-Sang race open to non-Thoroughbreds.

The two features are open to one-time winners, race 4 restricted to fillies, both carded at one mile. Race 3 has two horses priced much shorter than their opponents in overseas early wagering Monday – Moujik and National Service.

Moujik’s lone start came last October at Toulouse, where he turned back a strong challenge from Waltham to win with something left. The maiden race has proved key – the second, third, and fourth place finishers all returned to win races, and Waltham was a one-length winner March 9 of a listed stakes race at Chantilly.

National Service also has only a winning debut on his resume. His lone start, over Polytrack at Chantilly in December, yielded a workmanlike victory.

Jean-Claude Rouget trains Moujik and also sends out one of the favorites in the fillies race, Waahaat, who won her debut by two lengths last fall racing over the Saint-Cloud course.